Wrecks /
"Wrecks is a collection of poems inspired by the great auk, a flightless seabird driven to extinction in the mid-1800s. The last two known members of the species were killed on Eldey Island, Iceland, in 1844. The auk was repeatedly described by those who killed the bird as making human-like ges...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[Blacksburg, Virginia] :
Noemi Press,
[2025]
|
| Series: | Poetry Series (Noemi Press)
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | "Wrecks is a collection of poems inspired by the great auk, a flightless seabird driven to extinction in the mid-1800s. The last two known members of the species were killed on Eldey Island, Iceland, in 1844. The auk was repeatedly described by those who killed the bird as making human-like gestures and sounds, including sighs. Wrecks investigates how the human-nonhuman binary and the dehumanization it enables makes space for violence--against animals and the environment, but also against other humans. It explores the colonial systems that drive extinction, and the hierarchical structure by which hegemonic powers decide what is--and what is not--human. It engages the author's experience of dehumanization as an atheist growing up in the conservative South; it also interrogates her complicity in systems of structural racism, and her inheritance as the descendant of colonizers."-- |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Series title from publisher's website "Poems"--Cover |
| Physical Description: | 110 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-108) |
| ISBN: | 9781955992633 1955992630 |